As public hearings to select the next UN secretary-general approached, a dubious poll placed the ex-Senegal president as the ...
The landed cost – the largest single component – covers the international purchase price of fuel, the exchange rate used to ...
The South African Police Service records statistics on sexual offences against victims under the age of 18. In 2024/25, a ...
A politician and a bureaucrat sparred, reigniting a common complaint that in Kenya, fuel prices shoot up fast but barely come ...
IN SHORT: A video is circulating online with a claim it shows Nigerian Jews holding a mass rally in support of Israel and the US during those two countries’ 2026 war on Iran. But this is misleading.
Two men were shot in Kraaifontein, Cape Town in April 2026, but viral footage of the aftermath was AI-generated ...
IN SHORT: A post circulating on Facebook claims that Netcare Education, a division of the private healthcare group Netcare, is offering free nursing training for 2026. But the advert is not legitimate ...
IN SHORT: Posts circulating on Facebook claim that the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, or Prasa, is hiring general workers and for learnerships. But the posts are misleading. Prasa has not ...
30,000 children “trafficked” into the sex trade every year in South Africa; 30,000 children “currently” being prostituted in South Africa. Human trafficking is rife in South Africa, if recent press ...
This guide is a shortened extract from "A Practical Guide to Media Law" by Dario Milo and Pamela Stein, published by LexisNexis. As with the right to freedom of expression, it is trite to say that ...
Are white Afrikaners really being killed “like flies”? Is a white South African farmer being “slaughtered every five days?” Would the number of whites “killed in SA in black on white violence” fill ...
South African billionaire Johann Rupert, US president Donald Trump (May 2025) There is no evidence to back billionaire Johann Rupert’s claim that undocumented foreigners are mainly behind farm murders ...